Image Medieval Manuscripts Lehigh Codex 21 Dogale This manuscript is a commission issued by Leonardo Loredan, doge of Venice from 1501 to 1521, addressed to Andrea Valerio, concerning Valerio's duties, rights, and obligations while holding the position of podestà (civil administrator) of Piran, a mainland community in Slovenia under Venetian control. View Item
Image Medieval Manuscripts Lehigh Codex 23 Gradual This manuscript is a Gradual, in Latin, fifteenth-century manuscript on parchment, written in Italy. Originally 188 folios, now 175 folios. Bound in original wooden boards and brown leather. View Item
Image Medieval Manuscripts Lehigh Codex 25 Antiphonal This Antiphonal was produced in Tuscany (likely Pisa) in the second quarter of the fourteenth century. It contains material from the Temporale and Sanctorale for Septuagesima and the Pre-Lenten season. It contains three large historiated initials by an artist working in a style close to that of Francesco Traini. The miniatures depict King David playing the psaltery before God (f. 21), the Martyrdom of Saint Agnes (f. 146), and the Martyrdom of Saint Agatha (f. 257). View Item
Image Medieval Manuscripts Lehigh Codex 11 De artetica et de caculosa passione This is a fifteenth-century collection of medical texts, De Artetica and De Calculosa Passione, written by Antonio Guainerio. It was written in Italy, and a note on the inside cover in a modern hand dates the manuscript to 1490. The texts are known to be by Guainero, although this manuscript attributes them to Pope Nicholas V. View Item
Image Medieval Manuscripts Lehigh Codex 12 Anon. Portolan charts Three maritime charts bound in contemporary parchment over paper board. The first chart shows the 26th to the 51st northern gradations, the coasts of England and Ireland south to Madeira and the Canary Islands, including the coasts of Spain and France. The second chart shows the whole of the Mediterranean, including the coasts of the eastern Mediterranean and Northern Africa. The third chart shows the Mediterranean from the Meridian of Gallipoli (Italy) to Dakar, Africa, including part of the Atlantic Ocean and the coasts of Spain and Portugal. View Item
Image Medieval Manuscripts Lehigh Codex 13 Aeneid This is a fifteenth-century manuscript copy of Virgil's Aeneid on paper, written in Italy and dated 22 February 1462. There are many textual corrections, annotations and drawings in a later hand. Bears the inscription "Michael Bone." View Item
Image Medieval Manuscripts Lehigh Codex 09 Anon. Writings on astronomy This manuscript is a compilation of several anonymous writings on astronomy and astrology. It contains a number of tables, diagrams, and shorthand annotations. Often the compiler has made notes on a text rather than transcribe it, or has abbreviated what transcriptions he has made. View Item
Image Medieval Manuscripts Lehigh Codex 10 Alchemical writings This late fifteenth-century manuscript, written on paper, contains a compilation of alchemical texts assembled and copied by Arnold of Brussels. For the most part, it was made in Naples between 1472 and 1490, as often noted at the end of works (for example, fols. 149r, 182v, 196v). A group of works in the middle of the volume appear to be in a different, possibly German, hand (fols. 79-101). As well as lists of philosophers, recipes, and key alchemical terms, it contains a number of texts and treatises of historical importance. View Item
Image Medieval Manuscripts Lehigh Codex 01 Historia of St. Nicholas with the lections This manuscript is a partial leaf from a twelfth-century liturgical manuscript, probably written in Italy. The text on this leaf is from Reginold von Eichstätt's Historia of Saint Nicholas, a series of antiphons and responsories designed to be sung in the canonical Office on the feast of Saint Nicholas. Shortly after the composition of the Historia in the second half of the tenth century, lections were added, which were included in the source manuscript of this fragment. The responses, versicles, and antiphons are marked with neumes for chanting. This fragment was used in a binding. View Item
Image Medieval Manuscripts Lehigh Codex 02 Anon. Life of St. Nicholas This manuscript is a fragment of a leaf from a twelfth-century devotional text, previously used in a binding. Written in protogothic script, probably in Italy, it is perhaps from a life of Saint Nicholas of Myra, as the text contains references to agios Nicolai and urbs Varensis (Bari). View Item
Image Medieval Manuscripts Lehigh Codex 04 Moral and didactic writings This is a thirteenth-century compendium of moral and didactic writings, with a colophon dating the manuscript to 1268. The book contains a varied collection of texts, ranging from Roman Seneca in the 1st century, through the North African apologist Fulgentius in the sixth, to the near-contemporary sermons and the recent Moralitates of the learned Englishman Holcot. The manuscript is a good example of a late medieval compendium, and contains a variety of authors known all across Europe. View Item
Image John Hirsh Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Binding fragment: folio from a Homoliary Fragment consisting of two halves of a single leaf, used in a binding. Text is from two sermons, one of them attributed to Saint Augustine. However, the opening words of this homily cannot be identified in M. Vattasso's Initia Patrum (Rome 1906, 1908), 2 vols; in catalogue of the British Library Royal manuscripts (London, 1921). The large format implies that the leaf was intended for public reading at a public lectern, and to facilitate such reading very few abbreviations were employed. View Item
Image John Hirsh Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Three folios from Augustine, Tractatus in Iohannem 6 leaves, single sided , adhered to paper. undecorated besides initials on 1st, 4th and 6th leaves. See JH4.2 Page 71. Sotheby’s Lot 7, on 8 July, 2014. There were 2 decorated ‘vine initial’ leaves for sale by Quaritch in their catalogue 1439, nos. 8 & 9. The story is that the Codex from which these leaves originate was broken up by a London dealer in the 1960s. View Item
Image John Hirsh Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Two folios from the Llangattock Breviary “The Llangattock Breviary. Single folio on vellum. Italy, doubtless Ferrara, ca. 1441-48: 272 x 200 mm (justification 165 x 128 mm). Single column, 30 lines. Decoration: elaborate colored swags of delicate penwork terminating in multicolored leaves, tendrils, and gold bezants. The largest ornaments emerge from the termini of gold medial bar borders. Along one side, however, is a swirling pattern of blue flowers and leaves all curling in an exuberant, symmetrical display. View Item
Image John Hirsh Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Folio from a Gradual Single leaf from an Antiphonal. Text is from the Book of Wisdom starting from the decorated initial "I" in blue ink on the recto side. View Item
Image John Hirsh Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Folio from an Antiphonal Binding fragment, almost complete single leaf from an Antiphonal. Text contains part of the offices for Holy Saturday. Recovered from use in a binding and with consequent creasing and wear, trimmed at foot with loss of probably a single line of text, verso particularly worn. View Item
Image John Hirsh Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Folio from an Italian Book of Hours Leaf from a Book of Hours. The text is Psalm 118: "Mirabilita Testimonia". View Item
Image John Hirsh Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Folio from a Breviary or a Missal Single leaf from a Breviary or Missal. View Item
Image John Hirsh Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Binding fragment: folio from a Bible concordance Single leaf with heavy staining. Used in a binding. Text is a conccordance to the bible for the letter "G" View Item
Image John Hirsh Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Binding fragment: Folio from a Concordance to the Bible Single leaf from a concordance to the bible. The leaf has been trimmed a good deal and is very stained. Writing in Latin perpendicular to the text. Probably a pastedown, as the verso of the leaf is heavily worn. View Item
Image John Hirsh Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Folio from an Italian Ferial Psalter or portable Hymnal Single folio from a Ferial Psalter or portable hymnal. There are two texts, the first comprising the end of a hymn entitled "Dulcis Jesu Memoria," attributed most often to Bernard of Clairvaux but probably authored by an English Cistercian. This is a rare example of a non-liturgical song adapted as a liturgical hymn in the late fifteenth century for the office of the holy name of jesus. The other text is the complete "Ubi caritas," an antiphon for the pedilavium as the rubric states. The verses are laid out in quatrains. View Item
Image John Hirsh Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Folio from a Gradual Single leaf from a Gradual. Binding fragment, a few small holes, edges frayed, some stains. View Item